Section 191

The competent authority may serve or may cause to be served upon any reservist a training notice which shall state that he is called out for training and the period for which he is called out and shall

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require him to present himself at such time and place and on such day and to such authority as may be specified in the notice.

Where a training notice has been served on any reservist, the competent authority may at any time before the date on which he is thereby required to present himself cause to be served on him a supplementary notice varying the training notice by altering the place or time, but not the date on which, he is thereby required to present himself.

Every training notice served otherwise than by registered post shall require the reservist upon whom it is served to acknowledge receipt thereof within such time as may be specified in the requirement;

and if acknowledgement is not received the competent authority may cause a further training notice to be served on him by registered post and may by that notice direct that the former notice shall be deemed to have no effect.

If at any time during a reservist’s period of service in the

Regular Forces Reserve any change occurs in his name or address, he shall further notify the change to such person and in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 194; and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall, on conviction before a Magistrate’s Court, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred ringgit.

Every reservist shall upon being called out for training under this section be deemed to be a person subject to service law under this

Act and shall if he fails, without leave being lawfully granted or without any reasonable excuse, to present himself in accordance with subsection (2) be liable to be tried for an offence of absence without leave within the meaning of section 55.

Reservists’ civil employment not to be affected by service in the reserve